Josh Fisher
@textsavvy.org
Explicit instruction, technologist, arteest.
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Josh Fisher
@textsavvy.org
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Josh Fisher, A Function-First Account of Human Social and Individual Consciousness as Cultural Evolution Engine - PhilPapers
This article advances a function-first account of social and individual consciousness as the engine of cumulative cultural evolution. At the social level, joint attention (a We-mode) objectifies share...
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What I should have said here is that this is a clue (bsky.app/profile/text...). Consciousness is a mystery in part because it lies in between behaviorism and individualistic psychologism. It was BUILT for and functions through communicative sociality.
philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12
philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12
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NEW Overconfident by Design
How confidence drives action , distorts judgement and fuels learning open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
How confidence drives action , distorts judgement and fuels learning open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
Overconfident by design
How overconfidence drives action, distorts judgement, and fuels learning
open.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 AM
NEW Overconfident by Design
How confidence drives action , distorts judgement and fuels learning open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
How confidence drives action , distorts judgement and fuels learning open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
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Reduced feedback, and especially feedback that’s deliberately faded from specific to general, is a quiet but powerful way to shift responsibility from the teacher’s correction to the learner’s cognition. And that’s exactly what education is supposed to do.
The Forgotten Desirable Difficulty – Reduced Feedback
Reduced feedback, and especially feedback that’s deliberately faded from specific to general, is a quiet but powerful way to shift responsibility from the teacher’s correction to the learner’s cognition. And that’s exactly what education is supposed to do.
www.kirschnered.nl
February 1, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Reduced feedback, and especially feedback that’s deliberately faded from specific to general, is a quiet but powerful way to shift responsibility from the teacher’s correction to the learner’s cognition. And that’s exactly what education is supposed to do.
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It is going to be the biggest ever Australian researchED.
Today, we hit 540 registrations and we are still going!
Don't miss out on being a part of this movement.
Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-b...
Today, we hit 540 registrations and we are still going!
Don't miss out on being a part of this movement.
Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-b...
January 29, 2026 at 10:48 PM
It is going to be the biggest ever Australian researchED.
Today, we hit 540 registrations and we are still going!
Don't miss out on being a part of this movement.
Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-b...
Today, we hit 540 registrations and we are still going!
Don't miss out on being a part of this movement.
Tickets: events.humanitix.com/researched-b...
My GPT is starting to push back, telling me to be less ranty. Good advice, I think. I am too ranty.
January 29, 2026 at 12:53 AM
My GPT is starting to push back, telling me to be less ranty. Good advice, I think. I am too ranty.
I think this would make it into 'assigned reading' regardless of what I was teaching (bit.ly/4rovP5P). You can find it elsewhere online for free as well. Only a dozen pages long.
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction — Text Savvy
“The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” an essay Le Guin wrote in 1986, disputes the idea that the spear was the earliest human tool, proposing that it was actually the receptacle. Questioning the spear’...
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I think this would make it into 'assigned reading' regardless of what I was teaching (bit.ly/4rovP5P). You can find it elsewhere online for free as well. Only a dozen pages long.
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Good post from Dylan partly about the absurdity of the current "high quality instructional materials" moment.
The Interventions We Need • Trigger warning: education consultants read with caution
The Interventions We Need
Trigger warning: education consultants read with caution
fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Good post from Dylan partly about the absurdity of the current "high quality instructional materials" moment.
January 27, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Against the backdrop of the American Revolution, Judith Sargent Murray’s essay On the Equality of the Sexes (1790) made what was, at the time, a radical claim: women are the intellectual equals of men. https://buff.ly/3Lvff02
January 26, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Against the backdrop of the American Revolution, Judith Sargent Murray’s essay On the Equality of the Sexes (1790) made what was, at the time, a radical claim: women are the intellectual equals of men. https://buff.ly/3Lvff02
For me, this could a pebble to the side of the scale arguing that Neanderthals had social consciousness but did not have robust, sapiens-style individual consciousnesses ('intelligence' is different), which allows for social close-knittedness across space and time.
philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12
philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12
January 25, 2026 at 1:09 PM
For me, this could a pebble to the side of the scale arguing that Neanderthals had social consciousness but did not have robust, sapiens-style individual consciousnesses ('intelligence' is different), which allows for social close-knittedness across space and time.
philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12
philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12
When life hands you ice and rock salt . . .
January 24, 2026 at 9:04 PM
When life hands you ice and rock salt . . .
“I believe that education, and only education is the key which can open the dungeon of ignorance and allow our youth to share in the glory of a life lived joyously.” - Maya Angelou
www.unesco.org/en/days/educ...
www.unesco.org/en/days/educ...
International Day of Education
24 January
www.unesco.org
January 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM
“I believe that education, and only education is the key which can open the dungeon of ignorance and allow our youth to share in the glory of a life lived joyously.” - Maya Angelou
www.unesco.org/en/days/educ...
www.unesco.org/en/days/educ...
Denominator as 'spatiality' is an idea that's got my juices flowing.
"What ultimately distinguishes them . . . isn’t the difference in the patterns they show, but what I call their visual denominator . . . each option has its own distinct spatiality."
www.textsavvy.org/blog/compose...
"What ultimately distinguishes them . . . isn’t the difference in the patterns they show, but what I call their visual denominator . . . each option has its own distinct spatiality."
www.textsavvy.org/blog/compose...
The Composed Curriculum — Text Savvy
Without this phase, we will continue to swing between intentions so elevated they cannot guide action and practices so improvised they cannot accumulate meaning.
www.textsavvy.org
January 24, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Denominator as 'spatiality' is an idea that's got my juices flowing.
"What ultimately distinguishes them . . . isn’t the difference in the patterns they show, but what I call their visual denominator . . . each option has its own distinct spatiality."
www.textsavvy.org/blog/compose...
"What ultimately distinguishes them . . . isn’t the difference in the patterns they show, but what I call their visual denominator . . . each option has its own distinct spatiality."
www.textsavvy.org/blog/compose...
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Discovery learning works well for students who least need it. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/privilegin...
Privileging the Already Privileged
The Progressive Case for Explicit Instruction
carlhendrick.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Discovery learning works well for students who least need it. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/privilegin...
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Teaching math so students learn with Craig Barton youtu.be/8OpT3zF_d5E
Teaching math so students learn with Craig Barton (Ep 63)
YouTube video by Chalk & Talk with Anna Stokke
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Teaching math so students learn with Craig Barton youtu.be/8OpT3zF_d5E
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I’m very concerned about teacher workloads but lot of what we call “work” in schools is tied up with identity, taste, status, and autonomy.
Check out my latest.
educationrickshaw.com/2026/01/20/t...
Check out my latest.
educationrickshaw.com/2026/01/20/t...
The Workload Solutions the Profession Doesn’t Want
I’m very concerned about teacher workload. Plenty of teachers are running on fumes. In the 2024 State of the American Teacher survey, 59% of teachers reported frequent job-related stress and 60% re…
educationrickshaw.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:05 AM
I’m very concerned about teacher workloads but lot of what we call “work” in schools is tied up with identity, taste, status, and autonomy.
Check out my latest.
educationrickshaw.com/2026/01/20/t...
Check out my latest.
educationrickshaw.com/2026/01/20/t...
Woot! I submitted my consciousness paper for this. Seasoned research people-friends, are there funding sources I can tap into to get me to this conference?
January 22, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Woot! I submitted my consciousness paper for this. Seasoned research people-friends, are there funding sources I can tap into to get me to this conference?
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ART - adding support to the argument that Australia has a 65,000 year old continuous First Nations culture.
Art is absolutely critical to knowledge systems of Indigenous cultures - and inherent in Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...?
#theknowledgegene #memorycode
Art is absolutely critical to knowledge systems of Indigenous cultures - and inherent in Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...?
#theknowledgegene #memorycode
Hand shape in Indonesian cave may be world’s oldest known rock art
Archaeologists say stencil painted with ochre in limestone cave on Muna Island was created at least 67,800 years ago
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:06 AM
ART - adding support to the argument that Australia has a 65,000 year old continuous First Nations culture.
Art is absolutely critical to knowledge systems of Indigenous cultures - and inherent in Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...?
#theknowledgegene #memorycode
Art is absolutely critical to knowledge systems of Indigenous cultures - and inherent in Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...?
#theknowledgegene #memorycode